But can you analyze hearing, and show how the sounds rise into consciousness?
Victoria C. Woodhull
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.
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Thought, expressed in an unknown language, is not comprehended; this indicates that thought abstracted from form is never communicated.
Given a mind possessed of a new truth and one that has not yet perceived it, the former can communicate it to the latter.
There is still more subtle evidence that thought, which is only the memory of past manifestations of power, or deduction of reason upon them, is the product of material action.
This seems to be conclusive that mind is the result of the experiences of the manifestations of power.
It appears, then, that contact and constant intercourse with external manifestations is not only necessary for the production of thought and its collaterals, but that to retain the consciousness which makes thought possible such…
Further evidence of this is seen when an adult is kept in solitary confinement, or cast away upon an uninhabited island; memory fails, language is lost, and the person becomes a semi-idiot.
Perhaps the most comprehensive and conclusive evidence of the material origin of thought is, that a child born under even favorable circumstances, but kept from all external, material and mental manifestations, grows up a simple idiot.
As the argument proceeds it will be seen how nearly the whole of these and many similar terms are resolvable into the few which convey realities.
Many terms, supposed to convey certain well-defined ideas, are found to be deficient when analyzed, and others stand for nothing in substance.
Ambiguity in the use of terms leads to confusion of ideas and thought, and is one great general cause of the ignorance and superstition still existing among apparently enlightened nations.
Therefore, viewed philosophically, religion and science stand for the subjective and objective whose relations comprise the whole.